Sigurd Kristiansen, known as Sig, came to America as a young man. He worked on farms in Griggs County until he decided to try his luck at farming himself.

He rented two different farms in Cooperstown Township until he bought the SE quarter of Section 10.

He bought a house and a barn in Cooperstown and moved them out to this farm. There he lived and farmed till the early 1930s. He decided to go back to Norway and he is still living there at the age of 85 years.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 275